J.G.Harston Sheffield Harston Advanced Disk Filing System Reference Manual. Copyright (C) 1990-2012, J.G.Harston. ISBN 1-899366-40-7 First edition December 1994 Second edition September 1995 Third edition September 2006 Fourth edition April 2012
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1 Introduction 1
2 The filing system 5
3 Filing system commands 13
4 Low level file entry points 25 OSFILE 25 OSARGS 27 OSBGET 28 OSBPUT 28 OSGBPB 29 OSFIND 31 FSCV 31 OSWORD 32 OSBYTE 33
5 The filing system utilities 37 BACKUP 38 COMPACT 38 Rescue 39 HUtils 39 HEdit 41 DMap 41 VisCompact 41 Intern/s 41 DemoGbPb 42 DemoArgs 42 TreeCopy 42 XTree 43 MakeLP 44 *lpS 46 Scroll 46
6 Error messages 49
7 HADFS programming examples 67
8 HADFS technical information 55
9 HADFS as an Econet environment 65
10 Biblography 81
Index 83